Now that the Germans rule the roost here, we are in real trouble (...), then during the two years they have been here, there have been all sorts of Jewish laws. Jews must wear a yellow star; Jews must hand in their bicycles; Jews are banned from trams (...) Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields (...) Jews must not sit in their own or their friends’ gardens after 8 o’clock in the evening; Jews may not visit Christians; Jews must go to Jewish schools, and many more restrictions of a similar kind, so we could not do this and were forbidden to do that. But life went on in spite of it all. Jacque used to say to me: ‘You’re scared to do anything because it may be forbidden.
